The Joy of Not Meeting Your Goals

I mean who gives an F, really?

Jul 01, 2025

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A small brown dog and a pale-skinned little girl wearing a white dress sit in matching celestial-blue armchairs in this horizontal painting. To our right, the girl sits with her legs angled to our left. She slumps back with her legs spread, and her left elbow, on our right, is bent so that hand rests behind her head. Her other elbow is draped over the armrest. Her dark brown hair appears to be pulled back, and tawny brown eyes under faint brows gaze down and to our left. She has a small nose set in a round face and a coral-pink mouth closed in a straight line. Her white dress has touches of gray, soft pink, and powder blue with a wide plaid sash around her waist. The pine-green, black, and sapphire-blue sash is accented with overlapping vertical and horizontal lines of burnt orange, light blue, and mustard yellow. Her socks match her sash and come up to mid-calf, over black shoes with silver buckles. The small dog has scruffy black fur and a russet-brown face. It lies curled in the chair opposite the girl, to our left, with its eyes closed and ears pricked up. The rounded backs of the upholstered chairs curve down to become the low arms. The vivid and light blue fabric of the chairs is scattered with loosely painted strokes of avocado and forest green, peach pink, cherry red, plum purple, and white. Beyond the chairs closest to us is another armchair and an armless loveseat, both covered with the same fabric. They sit at the back of the room, in a corner flooded with silvery light coming through four windows on the right side. The furniture is arranged on a peanut-brown floor. The artist signed in the lower left, “Mary Cassatt.” — *Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878*

Oh, hi! Remember me? I am living up to my name. We should all be proud of me for that.

Still, I find myself writing this with my tail between my legs. Why? Lol. Because I have not done AT ALL what I said I was going to do here for the past 6 months.

LET’S REWIND.

I had a vision people. Me in January was inspired! I was determined to make more space for my creative projects. For this newsletter. For CONVERSATION! FOR CREATIVITY! FOR THE PEOPLE!

Instead, I began a content development spreadsheet to bring my vision of interviewing other self-proclaimed failures to life and I immediately lost interest.

WHY?

Looking back, there are a number of things that come to mind as far as why I have failed in meeting my 2025 goal:

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